(Updated 11/26/08)
(While many schools have programs
teaching a variant on Dr. Rolf's work, all of the schools listed currently
have teachers who can trace their lineage directly back to training with
Dr. Rolf. Listing is NOT endorsement. CAVEAT EMPTOR!!)
The Guild For Structural Integration
Maintains a directory of practitioners. (I teach here.)
The Rolf Institute of Structural Integration
Maintains a directory of practitioners.
The International Professional School of Bodywork
Hellerwork Home Page Maintains
a directory of practitioners.
American
Massage Therapy Association
Associated Massage and Bodywork Professionals
The International Association of Structural Integrators
The Federation of Therapeutic Massage, Bodywork & Somatic Practice Organizations
International Massage Association
National Certification Homepage
Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards
Basic
Embryology Review
Anatomy Tutorial From Southern California
Orthopedic Institute
Muscle Net
Anatomy
Links
Intro to Muscle
Physiology
The Bone Room a cool site for collectors
Zahourek Systems Anatomiken
learning tool. This is a great way to learn anatomy especially for the kinesthetically
inclined.
Visible
Human Project this site links out to many wonderful pages of work based
on the visible human project.
NPAC
Visible Human Viewer This is one of the best web based viewers for the
visible human date.
es an interesting collection of pages on
muscle variations
Cervical Fascia
A tutorial on the layering and extent of the cervical fascias from Tufts
University. This is one of the only pieces on the web which shows the various
fascias of a region. Color coded for easy identification!
digital anatomy
and the hyper-texted body An essay on body and anatomy by Eugene Thacker
A great
skull anatomy tutorial
FAQ's
on common orthopedic problems from Southern California Orthopedic Institute
Wheeless Textbook of Orthopedics
an online reference to all thing musculoskeletal and dysfunctional
The Feldenkrais Guild
The Trager Institute
Alexander Online
Neuromuscular therapy (NMT) Judith Walker-Delany
teaches one of the many courses on NMT currently available. This is a good
place to start in investigating NMT.
Ed
Maupin Musings from one of the world's oldest Rolfers, (and he has
the gray beard to prove it!) founding member of Rolfing's 'loyal opposition'
and my first teacher.
Will Johnson Founder of the Institute for Embodiment Training.
Robert Schleip's Homepage A good
collection of articles and information from a long time Rolfing practitioner
and Instructor.
Dr. James Oschmann
author of Energy Healing, Connective Tissue Properties, Reading on the
Scientific Basis of Bodywork and other wonderful work.
David Gorman, Author
of 'The Body Moveable more great papers and essays
Pedro de Alcantara Writer, Muscian and Alexander Teacher in Paris, France.
Richard Wheeler
a friendly mad scientist. His art work and workshops in structural integration
are truly unique.
Pierre A. Bernard was Ida Rolf's yoga teacher during the 1920's and 30's. Rick Stringer at Vanderbilt University maintains a wonderful website on this bit of esoteric Americana and early bodywork history.
Early
American Manual Therapy From the Meridian Institute. This is a wonderful
collection of articles, pamphelts and essays on early American Manual
Therapy, predominantly osteopathic.
Richard
Wheeler Looking for someone to Rolf your sabertooth cat, woolly mammoth,
or cave bear?? Look no further, Richard can handle them all!!
Edward Maupin In San Diego, California. Trained by Ida Rolf back before the dinosaurs went extinct. A long time member of the 'loyal opposition', Ed is one of the best minds in bodywork.
Donna Duncan In Auburn, California. Trained at the Guild and IPSB among others. A very eclectic background and passionate about bodywork.
Garrell Herndon In San Francisco. Garrell is a bona fide triple threat, Rolf practitioner, Iyengar Yoga Teacher and real live, wiggle your toes in the mud, old boy from Missouri.
Amber Burnham In Salt Lake City. Amber is a wonderful practitioner and fellow faculty member at the Guild for SI.
Scott Gauthier In Denver, CO.
Advanced practitioner with the Guild.
Jamie Counsellor GSI Practitioner in Michigan, Upper Pennisula I believe...
Liz Stewart Advanced practitioner and fellow faculty member at the Guild.
Kristina Johnson In Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Advanced practitioner with the Guild.
Deidra Vrooman In San Francisco. Deidra is a spirited soul and dogged in her pursuit of the work. She single handedly transcribed the audio files on the Guild site!
Dameron Midgette In Brunswick, Maine.
Advanced practitioner with the Rolf Institute and the Guild. One of the most energetic and enthusiatic peoiple I know.
Tim Roode Advanced Practitioner in Boston. Can't see Tim, ask about his brother Corey, also a practitioner.
Alyssa Dodson In New York City ('If I can make it there I can make it anywhere...')
Practitioner with the Guild, Alyssa also brings a varied background in movement to her practice.
Holistic
Sites Hotlist
Touch Research Institute
at the University of Miami, You want research? We got research!
General Semantics Dr. Rolf
had a lifelong interest in the work of Korzybski. This link will lead into
web based info on his work. Korzybski's book Science and Sanity reads like
a conceptual primer on Structural Integration.
Guide to Philosophy
on the Internet
A Fuller Explanation Dr. Amy C. Edmondson was Bucky Fuller's assistant his last few years on the planet. This wonderfully accessable book makes his elegant (and ultimately simple) ideas about universe available to everyone, not just those willing to wade through his arcane and complex texts.
Terence McKenna Terence has passed
on but he remains one of my very favorite story tellers. Best rap on nature,
history, the fractal nature of time, the Gaian conspiracy, and the archaic
revival, and life on our blue-green planet. This site has a great collection of Terence Lectures in mp3 format. They're large but good quality.
Arcosanti A
prototype city in the desert of Arizona. Its a cross between a psychedelic
monastery and a space ship that crashed and blended with a mesa. Its truly
amazing.
E-waste is becoming a huge global prolem. Most of it is the result of perfectly good hardware that won't run the latest and greatest software being produced by Micro$oft or Apple. Much of this functional hardware (with heavy metal and fire retardant pollutants leaching out) winds up in a landfill or worse in China or Africa being 'recycled' by child laborers. You can contribute to ending this practice by stepping out of the proprietary software game and switching to open source software. Below is a list of popular open source free software which will run on the PC architecture and can be downloaded and installed legally for free. If you live in Portland, OR you can take your old equipment to FreeGeek where they will see to it that it is reused or recycled properly. If you have the time volunteer and earn a free computer loaded with an open source operating system and free software.
Ubuntu a free open source desktop operating system. This is the operating system I now use. This is the beginners Linux and is suitable for giving many an older PC a new lease on life. Of the many flavors of Linux this is the one that is easiest to use on the desktop.
OpenOffice Reads most Micro$oft Office documents (.doc, .ppt .xls etc.). Includes Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Draw and Database Windows and Linux NeoOffice for the Mac.
The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Project) Want Photoshop power without the cost? This is it. Available for Mac, PC and Linux Mac lite version is Seashore.
Firefox (browser), Thunderbird (email) and Sunbird (calendar) programs from Mozilla. Available for Linux, PC and Mac.
Evolution comes bundled with Ubuntu and combines contact database, calendar and email client.
Scribus page layout program/desktop publishing (replaces Indesign, Quark, Pagemaker etc). Available for Linux, PC and Mac.
OpenDisc Windows open source software on one disk from Canonical.
Open Source Web Design Choose from over 2000 free templates licensed under Creative Commons or GNU. Just plug-in you copy or customize them using one of the open source web editors like Screem (Ubuntu/Gnome) or Bluefish (Mac and Linux/Ubuntu.